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First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...skills, knowledge and understanding as they participate in activities including preparing a ‘visual essay’, taking part in online negotiations and developing their own proposals for an innovative entrepreneurial venture...First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: examine personal pre-existing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Virtual murder: Just a game?
History & The Arts

Virtual murder: Just a game?

...study of hundreds of research papers published between 2005 and 2013. They concluded that ‘The research demonstrates a consistent relation between violent video game use and increases in aggressive behaviour, aggressive cognitions and aggressive affect, and decreases in pro-social behaviour, empathy and sensitivity to aggression’. In response, more than 200 academics...
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Article 10 mins
Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?
Nature & Environment

Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?

...study at Coventry University I am exploring female attitudes towards the notion of buying fewer garments. I have found, unsurprisingly, that anticipating, browsing for, choosing, buying and wearing clothes provides women with a great deal of happiness. Motivated by pleasure and variety seeking to an extent, but also by the desire to measure up to social expectations,...
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Article 5 mins
UK must balance food farming impacts
Nature & Environment

UK must balance food farming impacts

...study in Nature Climate Change. The area proposed for woodland cover would be close to that already achieved in France and Germany, but still less than the average for all Europe. Such restoration alone would go some way to meeting targets imposed by the government to reduce the threat of catastrophic global climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions that result...
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Article 10 mins
Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence

...study involving 500 participants in a variety of forensic disciplines found ‘questionable communication practices’ were common and that ‘little information’ was provided to support their ‘absolute conclusions’. Other studies have also found problems with the ambiguous use of language, such as Sunde who examined multiple expert reports and concluded digital...
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Article 5 mins
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...study in Social Sciences...‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the complex and different ways in which questions of social justice and inequality come to be seen in terms of the deficient behaviour of different populations Understand how certain...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Rosetta unexpectedly finds oxygen on comet 67P, surprising scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Rosetta unexpectedly finds oxygen on comet 67P, surprising scientists

...study therefore first of all exclude the possibility that the oxygen came from the spacecraft or was produced by reactions with the thruster propellant. Other explanations include chemical reactions or interactions with radiation, for example UV light, which could also split these molecules to produce free oxygen. Small amounts of oxygen observed on other icy bodies –...
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Article 5 mins
Should Houston prepare for more Hurricanes like Harvey?
Nature & Environment

Should Houston prepare for more Hurricanes like Harvey?

...study changes in tropical cyclones we need to run our models at high resolution and with interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean being represented. It’s much easier to study heat extremes, because we can do this by looking at a single, continuous variable: temperature. Tropical cyclones, on the other hand, are not a continuous variable; they either form or...
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Article 5 mins